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faithcure (countable and uncountable, plural faithcures)

  1. Alternative form of faith-cure
    • 1909, William Walker Atkinson, Suggestion and Auto-suggestion (found in 2022, Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson), page 113:
      In all this uproar of faithcures, and miracles, and shouting prophets, we have heard few illuminating words from the universities.
    • 1909 March, George M. Gould, “An Appeal for the Sake of Man and of Medicine”, in American Medicine, volume 15, page 126:
      American quackery, eddyism, osteopathy , faithcure, optometry, and a hundred such nonsensicalities, if ludicrous, are still evidences that a large part of the community is at least undeceived.
    • 2004, K. R. Swayanandan, S. Swayanandan, Homeopathic Treatment of Worms, page xii:
      Modern medicine practitioners seem to think that Homoeopathy is nothing but a quackery or faithcure system.